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Zackery Vaughn (from Scott County Jail inmate listings.) A 35-year-old LeClaire man faces felony charge after police say he created a substance that looked like methamphetamine. Zackery Vaughn, who was arrested on a warrant, faces felony charges of two controlled-substance violations and failure to affix a drug stamp. Shortly before 9 p.m. July 23, a search warrant was executed by the Scot...

State Street businesses brace for verdict in Rittenhouse trial  WKOW

The Washington State Capitol building It's a tough week for the WA Cares Fund, the state’s stab at a socialized long-term-care program. A class-action lawsuit was filed against the law that created the mandatory program and imposed a payroll tax of 58 cents per $100 on Washington workers. Opponents of the law filed in federal court and seek to stop the January start of the payroll tax. Then, ...

Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal Jenny Landau was a young child when she first started hearing her family’s stories: her father born in a displaced persons camp after World War II; grandparents losing their relatives to Auschwitz but fleeing to Russia, only to be sent to work camps in Siberia; a great-grandmother coming to America alone when she was 16. That history, along with Landau’s own exper...

Vermont became the first state in the nation to require school districts make condoms available free of charge to middle and high school students. A new law, Act 157 of 2020, states that each district shall make condoms available, free of charge, to all students in its secondary schools. It leaves it to school administrators to decide the best way to distribute condoms, but sets a minimum bar...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A northern New Mexico man has been acquitted of illegal trapping charges stemming from an incident that caused a dog’s strangulation death and prompted a new state law prohibiting trapping on public land. A state District Court jury on Wednesday acquitted Marty Cordova, 44, of Chimayo of crimes regarding trapping fur-bearing animals, including trapping within 25 yards (2...

Metro Nashville Public Schools will continue to require masks during a pending lawsuit that seeks to block a new law prohibiting mask requirements in schools. A federal judge appeared to temporarily halt enforcement and implementation of the new law banning public school mask mandates on Sunday. U.S. Middle District Court Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr. ordered all parties in the federal law...

Federal judge blocks school mask restriction in new Tennessee law  Murfreesboro Post Tennessee Law Prohibits Businesses From Mandating COVID Vaccinations  Business Insider Law Banning Public School Mask Mandates Appears to Hit Snag  U.S. News & World Report Middle TN judge’s order blocks new COVID laws  wreg.com Federal judge temporarily halts new Tennessee law banning school mas...

Federal judge blocks school mask restriction in new Tennessee law  Therogersvillereview Federal judge appears to temporarily halt new Tennessee law banning school mask mandates  Commercial Appeal Tennessee Law Prohibits Businesses From Mandating COVID Vaccinations  Business Insider Law Banning Public School Mask Mandates Appears to Hit Snag  U.S. News & World Report Middle TN jud...

BILLS SIGNED INTO LAW Senate Bill 373, now Wisconsin Act 89, which relates to making school-district and school financial information available to the public. The law requires the Department of Public Instruction to create an online portal, available beginning in the 2023-24 school year, that displays financial data collected from all school districts, county children with disabilities educat...